B645 Story: the false pedanda (Ida Gede Tonya) being burnt up.

FIREWOOD; FIRE; CONFLICT; RESOLUTION; BONNET-TURNED; compare to other version of story w/same circular composition

C: monster in a round pit, burning up. Foreground: people carrying firewood behind a curving wall.

FILE: TEXT645 Picture B645 SATOEWA IDA GEDE TONJA (dictated by Ida Bagus Made Togog) (written April 8, 1937-- Text 310) 1. There was a man named I Doediong who collected belibis birds (teal, a kind of wild duck). Now there was a pedanda who had a garden in which he planted kesela. There was a tjelagi tree (tamarind) in his garden. Then Ida Seri (the woman pedanda, according to GB's notes) said to Ida Gede (the man pedanda): Ida Gede, don't hoe the ground under the tjelagi tree. That tree is tenget. But Ida Gede was stubborn (bengkoeng) and hoed under it anyway. When he hoed under it, the tonya came out of the tree. The tonya went to the gria of the pedanda, who had hoed there, and turned himself into the Pedanda. He looked exactly like Ida Gede. So when he came into the geria he said, Ida Seri, I've just come back from hoeing. Give me some rice to eat. So she gave him dinner, and then they slept together the two of them. After he was asleep, the other pedanda came, looking exactly like the first one. He also asked for food, and then the two of them slept together. The next morning, Ida Seri peeked at Ida Gede, trying to find out which one really owned her. Ida Gede the Tonya looked just like the real Ida Gede. And both said that they owned Ida Seri. Ida Seri, I own you. So then there was the king of Toendjoeng Bero, and they went there and told him about it. About how the both of them looked just alike. Whoever can tell the difference (? - ngerawosin - to make come?), I will reward with a rice-field, a dry field, coconut trees and other goods, and besides some gold coins. But after a month no one could do it. Now the story goes to I Doediong. His bird said to him, Hey Doediong! Yes, bird? said I Doediong. Go over there to the palace (ke bentjingah) and tell them this trick (daja) What trick? said I Doediong. This is the trick. Go and say that whoever of the two pedandas can get into the spout of a water-jug, that one owns Ida Seri. The one that cannot do it, throw him in some fire: First make a big fire there. So then he went there and said that, and the one of the pedandas who was able to go into the spout of the water-jar, he took him and threw him in the fire, together with the jar. And when he threw him into the fire, he turned into Banaspati, for that tonya was indeed Banaspati.